The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-07-14
GENERAL NEWS NoTEs.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.


The Postmaster General has just estab-
shed 355 new money order offices; none
N South Carolina.
The sales of tobacco at Lynchburg, Va,
Turing the month Of June amounted to
|, ,20O,o pounds.
Hinton Miller, treasurer of Perry county,
ILL.,, is defaulter to the amount of $67, |
)OO. lie has gone to Canada.
The Irish land bill was read the first time
In the House of Commons on Monday. |
The second reading was fixed for the 18th. |
The drought in the midland and north |
ern counties of England was terminated
on Monday night by copious falls Of rain
The total amount received for the benefit
OF the Opera Comique fire sufferers was
G73, 600 francs.
Lord Salisbury has extended Sir Henry
Drummond VOLTS stay at Constantinoplc
until Saturday next.
Governor and Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee have
left New York for Richmond on the Old
Dominion steamer Seneca.
The Sobranj jc is holding q private meet
ing to choose q prince, Alexander having
absolutely declined to accept reelection
Twenty-Five new cases have been sent up
by the Barnwcll (S. c. Trial Justices for
W ' N0'lo 'i~>' "0N"
The directors OF the Panama Canal Com
lnlny WI lolu heetl9g on friday next 10
'''I'''' 'no H'e"''o.' u issuing d iie" lo'"
government rccclp,S since july amount
TO $",1'I I084, and expenditures to $l5,-
'4Si, or SlO,OS0, ,S03 In cNccSS OF the re-
ccipts.
:. ING Telegraph, telephone ana electric
lighting companies in New lorl: city have
been ordered to put their wires under
S'uu'"
!. Inc comic &c faris had another rccGp'
ton on the Island OF Jersey Tuesday. Ills
visitors numbered 700 and included num-
W. VI ''e'''iSuiSii'" ioSo''S'S'
NchGral howard mas been ADVISED that
general court martial has been convened to
Iry inc Apachcs VINO deserted recently ana
went on RAID III Arizona.
Mike Brown, OF BarnWcll, ). g., is hav.
ing lity-ilSht gas machine put up, ana
"ni soon nave his StorchOuScS illuminated
III CITY style
The President spent the Fourth Of July
very quietly, riding in from Oakvicw in
the morning us usual and rcioining Mrs.
Cleveland at OakVicw in the afternoon.
England and Russia have made mutual
concessions regarding the Afghan bound.
airy questions, which it is expected will re-
suit III an early agreement between the two
nations.
At the meeting of the nationalist MON
bcrs of thGOublin corporation Mr.. Sexton
was unanimously nominated for Lord
Mayor, Winstanlcy scconding the nomina-
tlon.
Martial law has been proclaincd in VAL
cncia, Spnin. Twcntv!onc nrrs0ns have
been arrested for completely in rioting
against The collectors OF octro tax.
The immense malt house of the Weber
Brewing Company at Cincinnati was
burned Monday night. Loss $500 600.
ihrcG men were killed by falling walls.
a special to the Sprinmiicld (Nassl Re-
pubLran says the B5$ton Dui!y .Idrlrtisc,.
and the Ecenjng Recor0 have been sold to
Charles Il. Whtcn, of Whitcnvillc, for
100000.
AdYiccs from China state that q rebellion
| took place recently at Chang Chow, near
| Shunjlhai. The uprising was SUPPRESSED
| by the authorities and 80 of the cGnspira
tors were executed.
AT Monmouth Park Wednesday, d,urin!
the first race, George Smith, manag er o
the Commercial Cable Company at 4
Broad street, dropped dead from heart dis
ease while witnessing the finish.
AT Il meeting Of the First Assembly DIS
trct OF the United Labor party in Ncv
YORK, Tuesday night, Rev. DR.. Edwmr
MCG!ynn was elected delegate TO the M
uonal Convention at Syracuse, August l6
Orders have been sent from the porc +,
Tic Nrchbishop of New York to cXcom
nuhchtc KEY. Dr. McGlynn, and TO pub
lSh the decree of communication in The
journals.
Prof. Baldwin, at Quincy, Ill.,, on tht
lth, performed i wonderful fem II,
Jumped out of balloon at the height Of ;
mile ana landed on the earth safely Ivy th(
'id OF Il parachute.
During sham battle at Delta, Fulton
county, Ohio, on the ith, Postmaster w
II. Huntington was fatally shot. How th(
r"hc1 u"i'cI %ot III Hlnoh8 inc pR'nN cartridges
"VDO'' ~, "n 'ApH''n'
Inc Tour Grand Army Posts of Utica
N. l., nave resolved not to parade in
oouy' as they hau intended to do, at Clin
Ioh' On the loth, II President Cleveland Dr
pivSc"',
thc o"tG 1or the official reception of Gen
Lh"l2n' inc new United States minister tc
! -AuSI!Ia, hilS not yet been liked. While l